Individual 2019 Membership

Individual 2019-2021 3-Year Membership

$110.00

Individual 3-year HBS membership for membership years 2019-2021. Includes the Historic Brass Journal for 2019, 2020 and 2021. Journals are typically mailed out either at the end of the membership year or at the beginning of the following year.

Students / Seniors 2019

$35.00

Discounted rate for full-time students or senior citizens (65+). This will start with the 2019 membership year and include the 2019 Historic Brass Journal which will be mailed between December 2019 and February 2020.

The 2019 Early Brass Festival of the Historic Brass Society (HBS) will be held in conjunction with Vintage Band Festival in Northfield, Minnesota. The Early Brass Festival will take place August 2-4, 2019, primarily at the Weitz Center for Creativity on the campus of Carleton College in Northfield.

In addition to a membership meeting and musical performances by attendees, the HBS gathering will feature more than a dozen scholarly presentations on variety of topics. The complete schedule for the three-day event follows. To register, download the Early Brass Festival registration form.

Once again the Cambridge Woodwind Makers will be offering summer workshops in which participants get to build their own instruments (cornetto and/or natural trumpet). The Natural Trumpet workshop led by Bob Barclay and Richard Seraphinoff will be held June 24-28, 2019. For more information click here. Sam Goble and Andrew Hallock will lead the Cornetto workshop, held August 26-30, 2019, click here for further information. Participants in either course do not need to have prior experience in metal/woodworking, and you walk away with a playable instrument!

The research team project “Our music, our world: Musical associations, wind bands, and local communities (1880-2018)” is pleased to invite submissions of proposals for the International conference Our music, our world: wind bands and local social life, to be held in Aveiro, at the Departamento de Comunicação e Arte da Universidade de Aveiro, from the 10th to 12th of October 2019. The proposal deadline is March 30, 2019. Details on the conference and submission process are available on the conference website: https://anossamusica.web.ua.pt/conferencia.php